High school student suspended for recording a fight with his smartphone

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A high school student in North Carolina was suspended from Pine Forest High School for recording a fight with his smartphone.

However, school administrators point to the incident as a violation of the school’s student policy.

DeAnthonie Taylor, 15, was one of the several students recording the fracas in an area called the “Fish Pond.”

As school administrators and teachers were breaking up the brawl, Ricky O’Briant, the school’s safety coordinator, ordered Taylor to stop recording the fight by grabbing his smartphone and throwing him to the ground.